Hasta La Motion!

This video essay is a response to the Every Frame A Painting video, ‘The Marvel Symphonic Universe’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs

Should film music be original? That’s a question that goes right back to the earliest of film sound. But with new technology came changes – and just maybe, the answer to why all Marvel films seem to have forgettable music.

This video was made by Dan Golding: http://www.twitter.com/dangolding

For educational purposes only.

All credit to Tony Zhou for his incredible channel, and for finally getting me motivated enough to make a video essay.

Archival and interview footage:

John Williams conducts The Empire Strikes Back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu7_dMhdciw
Hans Zimmer talks The Dark Knight Rises: http://soundworkscollection.com/videos/darkknightrises
Hans Zimmer: the making of Interstellar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_8t2VlwK4w
Man Of Steel Soundtrack – Percussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTOMIyynBPE
The Buggles – Video Killed the Radio Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs
Academy Awards 1936: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VJU61IKJ6E
Pierre Boulez conducts The Rite of Spring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn_PGrl5vYg
S. Rachmaninov. Symphony 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ey-Ecr_3ro
Adorno about Popular Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd7Fhaji8ow
John Williams conducts The Force Awakens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjNfOhbzxfI
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWdUCiZ-RE
The Searchers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30N-weocZT4

Music Cues and film score excerpts:

John Williams – Let There Be Light (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
Hans Zimmer – Message From Home (Interstellar)
King’s Row – Erich Wolfgang Korngold
How The West Was Won – Alfred Newman
Star Wars – John Williams
2001: A Space Odyssey – Strauss: Also Spruck Zarathustra
Troy – James Horner
Enemy At The Gates – James Horner
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan – James Horner
Avatar – James Horner
Inception – Hans Zimmer
Driving Miss Daisy – Hans Zimmer
Chinatown – Jerry Goldsmith
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – Hans Zimmer
The Dark Knight – Hans Zimmer
Man of Steel – Hans Zimmer

All films and music owned by their respective rights holders.